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Gen. 17. P E R I X E R A. 



Perixera Meyr., Trans. Eiit. Soc. 1886, p. 209. 



Palpi elongate; terminal joint elongate. Forewings sometimes 

 without areole. Posterior femora of $ with a dense tuft of hairs; 

 posterior tibiae of $ without middle spurs. 



Type P. j)Tionodes Meyr., from Fiji. Mr. Meyrick described 

 two species under this genus, which is defined by characters 

 drawn from the $. As the first species was represented only by 

 a 9 type, the second must be taken to be the type of the genus. 

 Subsequently Mr. Meyrick ascribed porphyropis Meyr., to the 

 same genus, but he had only ^ examples before him. 



1. Wings brownish, discal spot of hindwings large, snow- 



white , ^'d. monetaria. 



Wings not brownish, hindwings without white spot 2. 



2. Wings without median line ,., 90. lophosceles. 



Wings with median line well developed 91. odontota. 



89. Perixera monetaria. 



Anisodes inonetaria Gn., Lep. ix. p. 418, nee Hmps., Moths 

 Ind. iii. p. 450; Perixera (1) pleniluna Warr., Nov. Zool. 1897, p. 

 394; Perixera leucopeltaTiOw., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S.Wales, 1898, 

 p. 42. 



(J. 38 mm. Head pale reddish-brown; fillet white; upper part 

 of face reddish-purple. Palpi 2^, reddish-purple, beneath whitish- 

 ochreous. Antennae white, towards apex grey; pectinations in 

 (J very long (12). Thorax and abdomen pale reddish-brown. 

 Legs whitish-ochreous; anterior pair with some purplish suffusion; 

 tuft on posterior femora of ^ whitish-ochreous. Forewings 

 triangular, costa scarcely arched, except near base and apex, 

 apex round-pointed, termen bowed, oblique; 11 stalked, no 

 areole; pale reddish-brown; a faint fuscous line from J costa to 

 J dorsum; cilia pale reddish-brown. Hindwings with termen 

 rounded, slightly crenulate, forming a prominent angle at tornus; 

 colour and postmedian line as forewings; a large circular snow- 

 white discal spot, outlined with fuscous. Underside paler with- 

 out postmedian lines. 



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